The stage is now officially set for a comeback:

 

Registration Confirmation for: Crofton Kiwanis/Team Surlis Realtors 10K Challenge   Dear David, Congratulations! You are now registered for Crofton Kiwanis/Team Surlis Realtors 10K Challenge. Please check the event's official website for updates: http://www.croftonkiwanis.org

 

Any chance you'll come up for this, Phil? I suggested to Joe during our Ab Crest run yesterday morning that he should aim to beat your time from last year (walking time included).

I can beat my time from last year if I am remembering it correctly (44 minutes).   I have had injury problems and what not but for the month of May I actually did have a 2-3 runs each week, they just won't recorded, so I maintained a little bit more than you would think.  If I had to guess my 10K time right now, I guess slower than 41 minutes, but faster than 42 minutes.

However  I have my race in West Virginia that weekend so I won't be able to run.

That's exciting news. We'd figured you probably wouldn't actually do it, as it didn't look like you'd been training for distance.

I fear that tomorrow is going to be Rohan's Revenge (Rohan Meredith, a local Crofton favorite, was the runner-up behind me at last year's Kiwanis 10k Challenge). He must've done something intense to elavate his training this year, as according the athlinks he recently ran a 1:16:46 half-marathon (according to the RA race time predictor calculator, a 1:16:46 HM is the equivalent of a 34:19 10k). And then a  week later he ran a 16:45 5k in which he beat Karsten Brown to the finish by a single second. So, these Rohan revelations render my title defense determination dubious, and then there's the weather to put my PR potential in peril. It sounds like it's going to be torridly humid no thanks to this tropical storm mess, meaning it will likely feel far more akin to the Kiwanis weather we had in 2011 than the benign conditions we had last year (Joe and Phil can attest to the distinct differences between to the past two years in Crofton).

It's also occurred to me that this is the longest I've gone between racing experiences in the modern racing era (i.e., since the Chaptico Classic 2006). The 2013 Snapple High Cloud Half Marathon was practically half a year ago.

It is looking more and more like the Fall Marathon I am going to run is Marine Corp Marathon up in DC.  I didn't register for the race and it is filled, but one of the guys in my running group and his wfie signed up and is unlikely his wife will be able to attend so in theory I have agreed with him that I will purchase her bib.  Hopefully this doesn't end up one of those scenarios where she has already promised to sell the bib to somebody else.

Phil - when are you going to sign up for Rosaryville? I don't know what the limit might be, but Ron (somewhere on FB) that he's getting more registrations this year. My plan is to sign up after you do.

So are we going to get a David Raley vs. Brandon Demers showdown tomorrow night or is that the following week?

Perry and Crystal--- are you ready for ES6 in two weeks?